April 30, 2009

April 30, 2009

Dear Families,

Can you believe that we have less than 20 school days together? The kindergartners are working hard on report card evaluations. We will begin practicing our letters on fill in the blank sheets next week. The following week the kindergartners will write all the letters, capital and lowercase, on a fill in the blank type of worksheet. We learned the diagraphs ch and ee. We decoded many words on our papers this week. The boys and girls impress the teachers with all that they have learned this year in reading. Reading the booklets at home and reviewing the flashcards has really helped the boys and girls. We read the big book A Chair For My Mother and thought of different gifts the students would give to their hard working mothers.

There is no school for students tomorrow, May 1st. The teachers get to participate in many important meetings.

We have been working on our Grandparent/Guest Day songs. Please fill out the bottom portion of this week’s newsletter for Grandparent/Guest Day and send it back with your kindergartner. Kindergartners that do not have grandparents that can attend may invite a different adult. We need to know how many people are coming so that we can arrange for enough chairs and make enough cookies. If people do not return slips, then people may be standing and starving.

Our annual track and field day is scheduled for Wednesday, May 27th. (If it is raining, we will have it on Thursday, May 28th.) When all the events are over, kindergartners are allowed to go home with their families. A schedule of events and their times will be sent home with your child. Our last day of school is Thursday, May 28th. The boys and girls are dismissed early; 1:35 for town students and 1:40 for bus children.

Please watch the weather reports and dress your kindergartner appropriately. It is okay to send a light jacket and a heavier coat on days that you are not sure about the temperature. We’d rather have them a bit warm than freezing!

Have a safe and fun weekend!

Mrs. Daugherty, Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Pokorny, Mr. Degner, and Mrs. Herink



___________________ will bring ________ people on (Kindergartner’s name) (number)

Thursday, May 14th and/or __________ people on Friday, May
(number)
15th.

PLEASE RETURN THIS BY MONDAY, MAY 11TH.